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...Pillars of Hercules (Putnam; 509 pages; $27.50), Theroux records a grand tour of the Mediterranean, from Gibraltar to Tangier the long way around--that is to say, via the Spanish coast, Corsica, Albania and several points east, aboard wheezing buses, cranky trains and (once) a luxury cruise ship larded with rich Americans. Fans of previous Theroux travelogs like The Happy Isles of Oceania will relish some familiar ingredients. There is, for starters, his dazzling prose, which in a flick of a paragraph can shift from lowly growls of disgust to images of seascape with the allusive force of poetry...
Eliot House, Kirkland House, Leverett House, Lowell House and Quincy House residents may vote at a polling place inside Quincy Houses, while DeWolfe, Dunster and Mather House students must travel to Putnam Apartments at 2 Mt. Auburn...
...Beast: A Reckoning with Depression (Putnam; 286 pages; $23.95), Tracy Thompson, a reporter for the Washington Post, provides a harrowing chronicle of her battle against the demon she calls "a psychic freight train of roaring despair." Thompson is uncommonly thoughtful on many levels--from her fearful childhood in a Southern fundamentalist family, to her confused entanglement with a harshly supportive man, to her hospitalization in a mental ward and her sunlit rescue by Prozac. Thompson's reporter's eye is unsparing, and she writes with tough grace. About one of her more hopeful moments: "Life did not get easier...
...most recent in a series of attempted car thefts at the parking garage on 125 Putnam St. left nine cars damaged last weekend, according to Harvard Police Chief Paul E. Johnson...
Vandalism and thefts are not rare at the Putnam St. garage, but last weekend's incident was exceptional because of the high number of cars that were damaged in one spree...